RICHARD HOWARD wrote:
> I grew up loving hot rod and custom cars and still follow them mostly thru B-J and Mecum auctions on TV and a subscription to "The Rodder's Journal" which is sort of a high production value cross between the old "Hot Rod" magazine and "American Heritage". The parallels mentioned between old bikes and old cars are all valid. One thing I often see in these auctions and in TRJ is resto-mods and I am fascinated by the idea of applying this outside the box approach to rejuvenating old bicycles.
Interesting parallel, Richard. I've also spent a lot of time time with "older" cars (my daily driver is a '92 Volvo with 480K klicks on it and my "good car" is a 1985 IROC-Z). While I do appreciate the "pro touring" mods done to older cars to make them handle decently, I guess that sort of thing would also venture into the "off topic" area as far as bikes are are concerned. It's awful to think of ox cart suspensions as representative of the values that we all hold dear. Then again, European car suspensions from the "on topic" era are just beginning to show up in American cars today. It's as if Europe had carbon bikes with index shifting in the 1980s while America still had steel bikes with friction shifters until just recently. What a crazy world we live in!
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John Betmanis Woodstock, Ontario Canada